Patent attributes
A serial protocol based Docking device having a single set of user peripherals supports multiple removable host computers having different video output types and different operating systems. The device provides mouse tracking function that switches the keyboard and mouse to the different host computers when the cursor is moved by the user across the respective display boundary. The docking device provides file-sharing and cut-and-paste functions across the different docked host computers. Laptops, tabletops as well as Smartphones, tablets and other forms of portable platforms are supported. Dragging an item from a display designated to a first host computer to a display designated to a second host computer performs moving or copying the item from the first host to the second host.